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Start a business to help people or communities - business structures including community interest companies and co-operatives
Information about the Social Enterprise Boost Fund and local areas of delivery.
Defines a social enterprise by the purpose of a business, with primarily social objectives.
Find out if your social enterprise meets the conditions of the social investment tax relief (SITR) scheme for investments made on or before 5 April 2023.
This report analyses the size and characteristics of the social enterprise sector.
A report focused on improving the methodology which allows identification of social enterprises in the UK small business population.
A number of organisations are setting up, or already established, through the Right to Request scheme.
This action plan will enable DCMS to benefit from the skills and experience of charities and social enterprises when it purchases goods and services.
This report, based on the BIS Small Business Survey 2012, explores developments in the social enterprise sector in greater depth.
This digest synthesises secondary data about how social enterprises can improve outcomes for adolescent girls in low-income countries
The Regulator of Community Interest Companies memorandum of understanding with Social Enterprise Mark CIC.
Evidence report exploring the potential advantages social enterprises can offer local enterprise partnerships (LEP's).
The Regulator of Community Interest Companies memorandum of understanding with the Social Enterprise Coalition CIC.
The government has pledged £750 million to ensure VCSE can continue their vital work supporting the country during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, including £200 million for the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, along with an additional £150 million from dormant bank...
Report for BIS from a Cabinet Office funded two stage project that seeks to further understand the social enterprise sector, its experiences…
The Regulator of Community Interest Companies memorandum of understanding between the Regulator of Community Interest Companies and the Irish Social Enterprise Network.
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